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Blanketed surveillence on internal communications here inside the continental US like this is worse than Bush, yet Bush pushed for it. Some relevance of American civil rights HAS to be kept in tact. So by you saying, "There is no such thing as privacy any more", are you conceeding it all? Think about that. martin

Think about this, Martin. Your original post:

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I think it is pathetic that the FBI says they couldn't pursue the bomber after Russia told us about him because they couldn't find he broke any laws. Think about it. This guy went to bomb making sites and studied how to make bombs. Would any of us go there to even browse around? Hell no, we'd all expect to get on an FBI or Homeland Security list immediately. Here is this guy, already flagged and on a list, and he still freely surfed frequently in how to make bombs without any notice. The Feds can catch someone's niece downloading an MP3 and charge her, but here they don't catch what a terrorist did? Heads need to roll. sid

You started this thread complaining that the FBI hadn't done enough, in spite of legal limits, to get the Boston Bomber.

Now that there has been an approved increase of surveillance options, since Boston, watchng basically nothing but numbers, phone numbers, calling other phone numbers, and visitors going to certain internet site addresses, being surveilled, your complaining about that, too.

Make up your mind. Are you going to bash our security experts when something slips by, and something bad happens, and then turn right around and bash them at the same time for increasing surveillance, to prevent that same sort of slip from happenning again?

Additionally, no it is not worse than Bush, not by a long shot! Bush didn't go anywhere for approval. Bush did what he did secretly, No FISA Court, No Congressional oversight, totally against the laws of this country, even sending people into the hospital room of the United States Attrtorney General when he was at deaths door, to try to force him to sign off on his ilegal behavior, so he could continue to break the law, AFTER the Acting Attorney General, had already told Bush's thugs NO! You cannot continue to break the FISA laws.

President Obama has not broken ANY laws. No one is beinng listened to!!!!

Congress has known every single thing the administration has been doing. Everything comes under their scrutiny about every three months for re-authorization, or for authorization of any broadening of surveillance tools.

Take your pick. More legal surveillance, to keep us safer, or less to put us more at risk?

You can't have it both ways.

There is no such thing as privacy anymore. Even if you take anything and everything the government does, out of all of it, that is still a fact.

Surely you are not so Naive' as to think you have had any privacy since Bush was president, are you? You are being watched, everywhere you go, and you might just as well accept it, because it isn't going to go away.

The only people who are bitching about our country increasing surveillance since the Boston Bombings, are the Libertarians, who are totally nuts, unrealistic, and irresponsibly ignorant of our threats, to complain about increasing our safety in the dangerous world we live in today.

Basically, if your not talking to terrorists, e-mailing terrorists, or going to internet sights to learn how to buy or make WMD's, or committing treason by leaking classified information which puts our people at risk, or our humann assets in other countries at risk, then you have nothing to worry about, as far as your personal privacy is concerned. No one gets, "Listened to" unless a FISA Court, and the Congress, agree that there are actionable and factual red flags going up that represent a serius threat, and require it.

The basic surveillance law doesn't allow any listening, without approval by the Congress, and the FISA Court. This is nothing but a data base of numbers that pull up, or red flag, threatening behavior.

I have absolutely no problem with any of it, because all of it is making this country safer, and gives us a far better shot at preventing terrorist attacks here in America.

This program has already prevented one horrible attack. Check out what the retiring National Security Advisor is saying about it, maybe then, you won't be so offended by it, and so critical of our President.

Presdent obama needs to be able to keep a listen on these tea partyers and republicins. Slim wishes he had more power. But gayle you need to be careful cause theys a republicin spy working in this forum and his names hondo.

Now that is the first really silly thing I have read from you, but I don't read every thread.

I would trust Hondo with my own daughter's life! That's how much I know about, and trust Hondo.

Those trouble makers from AZ, are the ones you had better watch out for, not our Hondo. I know quite a lot about them, too.

Hondo, a Republican? LMAO! No way! I know Hondo far better than you do, annd he is no Republican.

However, If you're looking to argue with a bunch ot RW morons, who twist the truth, viciously lie and slander people who are decent Americans, and are totally unable to accept the reality of the Repiglican created Shock Doctrine, which has been destroying this country, and the world since Ronald Reagan set The Shock Doctrine into motion, and began to resurrect racism, spread plutocracy, greed, unconscionable pollution, ignorance and fear around the world, all in the interest of creating a super wealthy top one percent of pigs, and give them carte blanche to steal, poison and pollute for profits, then you could sign on over at AZ, where plenty of those kind of RW Repiglicans, and Libertarian idiots hang out.

Hondo, a Republican? LMAO! No way! I know Hondo far better than you do, annd he is no Republican.

However, If you're looking to argue with a bunch ot RW morons, who twist the truth, viciously lie and slander people who are decent Americans, and are totally unable to accept the reality of the Repiglican created Shock Doctrine, which has been destroying this country, and the world since Ronald Reagan set The Shock Doctrine into motion, and began to resurrect racism, spread plutocracy, greed, unconscionable pollution, ignorance and fear around the world, all in the interest of creating a super wealthy top one percent of pigs, and give them carte blanche to steal, poison and pollute for profits, then you could sign on over at AZ, where plenty of those kind of RW Repiglicans, and Libertarian idiots hang out.

Hondo is not one of them, FYI.

'Gayle, I imagine he is one of them. If not, they would laugh him off the forum.The fact that he has identified me as a tea party Republican and believes everything that little weasel troll johnny d. says tells you what we are dealing with here. Best to ignore this guy. He has nothing constructive to offer. He's either an idiot or posing as one.

'Gayle, I imagine he is one of them. If not, they would laugh him off the forum.The fact that he has identified me as a tea party Republican and believes everything that little weasel troll johnny d. says tells you what we are dealing with here. Best to ignore this guy. He has nothing constructive to offer. He's either an idiot or posing as one.

As the do sayin gos slim thinks you protest to much. You are a confessed criminal and drug addict and married to a republicin and i went to azbilliards and checked you out where you confessed to switching to republicin and hiring an illegl for a housekeeper. If that ait a republcin i dont know what is.

i went to azbilliards and checked you out where you confessed to switching to republicin and hiring an illegl for a housekeeper.

Link? What's that? You don't have one? I didn't think so , johnny/slim/joey/larry Wilson/co/sludge rule/ whoever you are. If you are unable to provide a link showing ME saying I hired an illegal and switched to the Republican party , then you are a lying POS. Can we at least agree on that? I know you won't respond to these accusations because you are a liar and a troll. I am indeed married to a Republican, so what? I have never been an addict. BTW, I am a lifelong Democrat. Only twice did I not vote for the Democratic candidate. Nixon/ Humphrey, I didn't vote, and I voted for Ross Perot once.

As the do sayin gos slim thinks you protest to much. You are a confessed criminal and drug addict and married to a republicin and i went to azbilliards and checked you out where you confessed to switching to republicin and hiring an illegl for a housekeeper. If that ait a republcin i dont know what is.